Public Health Issues in Mississippi

MISSISSIPPI - 2012: Non-profit consultant from Oxford, Mississippi, James Miller, poses for a portrait in front of the Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, June 3, 2012. Miller , determined to try to help the failing Mississippi Health Care system, teamed up with Dr.Mohammad Shabazi, an Iranian professor at Jackson State University, and Dr. Aaron Shirley, a black doctor and the first black student to do his residency at the University Medical Center in Jackson, to try to implement a plan mirroring the Iranian health care system in Mississippi. Mississippi has some of the highest rates of diabetes, obesity, infant mortality, AIDs, among other ailments, in the country, and though millions of federal funds have been thrown at the problems for years, conditions have only gotten worse. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Getty Images Reportage)